Study: Compared To ‘80s, Obese Adults Have Worse Heart Health, Higher T2D Risk.

Reuters (7/13, Seaman) reports that new research suggests “obese adults in the US have worse heart health and a higher risk of type 2 diabetes today than in the late 1980s.” The findings were published online in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Investigators looked at “data collected from 18,626 obese adults between 1988 and 2014 through the annual National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.”

        HealthDay (7/13, Reinberg) reports that although “blood pressure and cholesterol levels stayed relatively stable among obese adults, poor control of blood sugar led to a 37 percent increase in heart disease risk factors between 1988 and 2014.” Also during that time, “rates of diabetes rose from 11 percent to 19 percent, which was due to increases in blood sugar, the researchers said.” Meanwhile, the “rate of obese adults” with diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension “rose 37 percent – to nearly one in four...said” one of the researchers.